To prepare for the upcoming World Anti Bullying Forum (WABF) in June 2019 in Dublin, Friends, the National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre at Dublin City University and the International Bullying Prevention Association have partnered to provide free webinars with…

The three year long project will investigate online sexual harassment and exploitation in relation to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The project is a partnership between Friends International Center against Bullying and the UNESCO Centre for Tackling Bullying in…

The aim with this week is to highlight the dialogue between guardians/parents and children to prevent bullying and promote a safe and secure environment, as well as to engage adults to put pressure on the school, preschool and sports club…

After last year’s success of the first World Anti-Bullying Forum, we are happy to announce that the second forum will take place at in Dublin, Ireland, June 4-6 2019. Internationally recognized experts and practitioners will visit the unique conference. It…

Friends International Center’s partner, Vaikų linija (Child Line), has re-recorded Friends’ social commercials “Red head” and “Together” in Lithuanian settings. The commercials are now parts of a nation-wide campaign supported by the President. – Bullying is a global problem without…

Children who do not have any friends and children that expose others to bullying or is exposed to bullying themselves, run a much higher risk of not attaining high school eligibility. This is the result from a new research study…

In Sweden, one in four children state that they have been subjected to degrading treatment by another student in school in the past year. Girls are more exposed than boys, and many students bear witness to mean comments, exclusion and physical abuse. This information is presented in the Friends Report 2017, released every August when the children go back to school.

Even though major measures are taken to reduce bullying, the national figures in Sweden has stayed the same for the last decade. The schools are trying hard to combat bullying, but too often the interventions that are used to stop…

Every third child in Sweden has been exposed to degrading treatment online during the past year, according to Friends Online Report 2017. Every fifth girl in the ages 10-16 years has also been subjected to sexual harassment online. The girls…

All adults should be involved to prevent bullying in an effective way. To provide parents/guardians with better tools to work against bullying, Friends has launched an interactive e-training – a so-called e-simulation. In all of Friends’ training courses held throughout Sweden, parents…